Mary Carroll Nelson

“Individuality is a false concept. We are not individuals. We are just a little piece of the chain that is life. Your human body is made by billions of cells. Every little cell is a living being that can exist outside of your body. It can even reproduce outside of your body. You are that cell also. The cell itself has many inner elements and each of them is alive. The cell is part of a chain. With billions of cells we make a human body. You can say, "I am the body." Meanwhile, each cell can say, "I am a cell." The cell lacks awareness that many cells together make an organ. The liver, the heart, the intestines, the brain, the eyes-all the organs together form a human body, which is a unity.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

“Individuality is a false concept. We are not individuals. We are just a little piece of the chain that is life. Your human body is made by billions of cells. Every little cell is a living being that can exist outside of your body. It can even reproduce outside of your body. You are that cell also. The cell itself has many inner elements and each of them is alive. The cell is part of a chain. With billions of cells we make a human body. You can say, "I am the body." Meanwhile, each cell can say, "I am a cell." The cell lacks awareness that many cells together make an organ. The liver, the heart, the intestines, the brain, the eyes-all the organs together form a human body, which is a unity.
Each of us is a human being. Yet, just like a cell, we think we are separate and we are not. All humans on the planet create another organ for a larger living being, which is the earth. Planet Earth is a living being. We are the Planet Earth. A single cell is human. A single person is the planet. All humans form only one of earth's organs. There are many others. The trees, the atmosphere, the ocean, rocks and animals are all organs of the earth.
The earth has etheric energy just like humans do. It has a soul. It has a mind. It is alive. It is a living being. It has a metabolism through which it receives energy from the outside. It transforms energy that it takes in and sends out its own form of energy.
Planets receive energy from the sun and transform it. On earth, animals eat plants and transform the energy they receive.
Humans eat plants and animals and transform the energy they receive from them.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz